writing projects // pursuits

Autoportrait Pablo Picasso, late-1901 [detail]

harlequin bLue

A collection of narrative-linked prose poems, and a prolonged ekphrastic engagement with Pablo Picasso's Blue Period paintings (1901-1904). The storyline loops and spirals from city-symphony motifs to feverish carnivalesque activity to labyrinthine catacombs to ocean-crossings to No-place. There are echoes of the epic poem, but this story is not a hero’s quest: this katabasis consumes itself like a textual ouroboros.

The PIcasso Experiment: How to write like painting

A scholarly monograph, or collection of essays, on signs, minds and creativity, or how to write like painting; thinking with: biosemiosis, emergence, Night Science, sleuthing, Peirce's abduction, synaptic gaps, mapping, the substance of time, blueness, utopias, ekphrasis. Many of these chapters are, or will be, stand-alone essays, such as The Cell of my Art as an Amoeba (below). //

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Amoeba

The cell of my art: Mouths

The cell of my art becoming-mind as mouth, and mouth as ameoba / philosopoiesis, symbiosis, sympoiesis // a body of mouths.

Portrait Poems

A collection that grows from itself like fractal shoots, about cells, fossils and minds, on a long walk away from away through deep time and into imagined futures // This collection draws on the UQ Fryer Library's Dorothy Hill Collection for inspiration: see Fryer Library Fellowship 2018.